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Previous Issue: Summer 2011 (#18)

NORTHERN LIGHTS

New Writing from Orkney and Shetland featuring ROBERT ALAN JAMIESON, ALISON FLETT & CHRISTIE WILLIAMSON

An Rosg a Bhuannaich

The best new poetry and fiction including RON BUTLIN, KNOTBROOK TAYLOR, MERRYN GLOVER & WILLIE ORR

Who speaks for the labourer? ALAN BISSETT reviews ROBERT DAVIDSON's Site Works


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Where The Bodies Are Buried
by Chris Brookmyre (Published by Little, Brown) REVIEW BY PAUL F COCKBURN
 
Alexander Nimmo's Inverness Survey & Journal, 1806
Edited by Noel P. Wilkins (Published by Royal Irish Academy, ISBN 978-1-904890-74-4) REVIEW BY JIM MILLER
 
Surface Detail
by Ian Banks (Published by Orbit) REVIEW BY SAM WOOD
 
The Sea Detective
by Mark Douglas-Home (Published by Sandstone Press) REVIEW BY MANDY HAGGITH
 
The Secret's in the Folding
by Fiona Thackeray (Published by Pewter Rose Press) REVIEW BY MANDY HAGGITH
 
New Collected Poems
by Tomas Tranströmer - Translated by Robin Fulton (Published by Bloodaxe) REVIEW BY CHRIS POWICI
 
Urban Worrier
by Nick Thorpe (Published by Little, Brown) REVIEW BY STEPHEN KEELER
 
Lyrics & Tales in Twa Tongues
by Walter Perrie (Published by Fras) REVIEW BY IRENE HOSSACK
 

Audio

This section contains MP3 and WMA files of authors reading their work. Most modern web-browsers will play these files with no problem either by using Windows Media Player (on a PC) or iTunes (on a Mac).
Poems from The Sorley MacLean Poetry Competition:
 
Beul an Latha (Dawn) by Owen Sutcliffe
 
Colonsay & Pamplona by Mikaela Carmichael
 
Oran na Gaoithe by Donald Iain MacDonald
 
Airgead by Robbie MacLeod
 
Other Podcasts:
 
Poems by J L Williams
 
Shetlandic Poems by Christie Williamson
 

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